head sth↔off

ˌhead sth↔ˈoffto take action in order to prevent sth from happening阻止，防止（某事发生）He headed off efforts to replace him as leader.他挫败了要取代他的领导地位的企图。

• not to know a B from a a bull's foot
• be much accounted of
• hubless
• station sergeant
• to all intents and purposes
• computor
• Pan-Anglican
• torsion galvanometer
• equilibrium orbit
• oil
• Campbell process
• surfactants
• fibrescope
• go the round
• trades unions
• agricultural drain
• tabooli
• nasolacrimal
• hyperopic
• apparent oxygen utilization
• rock step
• layerages
• radial Doppler effect
• flanching
• as flat as a pancake
• waistbands
• paradoxically
• hungover
• begin to fidget
• concave joint
• contradictive
• night-flowering
• dinner pails
• eindhovens
• Stern-Zartman experiment
• bathyclinograph
• horn loudspeaker
• Ess.
• pan-amalgamation process
• rain drop impression
• bird of one's own hatching
• transistors
• order paper
• indo-
• prehistorians
• aptitudinally
• basad
• ease up / off
• warragal
• ergoes
• Auth.
• within four walls
• flopper
• depriver
• chase after
• colliers
• district nurse
• St.-Étienne
• forest preserve
• raincoats
• mogen davids
• package
• you wish!
• alleluia plant
• effluxion
• locks
• foehn pause
• West Haven
• organically
• Multiple Pregnancies
• blood sugars
• gesticulates
• answer a description
• ashfalls
• adventively
• veloce
• make merry
• merciful death / end / release
• Hyaenodon
• gutturalise
• filibusterers
• mudfish
• mundifying
• junction buoy
• dope something out
• tittle-tattling
• auxiliary ship
• featherlessness
• deoxidisers
• headlands
• Muenster
• room clerk
• inequiaxial
• electric automobiles
• pachydermatous
• citric acid cycle
• visiting nurse
• oh (dear) God
• churchlike
• monocot